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(and) spun flax;”
3. re-mi/a-wa/mu 1-sa-se “On behalf of Remus he brings
4. wa-ne/e-we1/a-ti-mi-we 1 divine wine in veneration to
5. mu1-sa/wa-si-ri-ti 1 the goddess Artemis”
6. e-mu sa-ne-ma/ya-sa-ti “I, Sanemas, to Iasos,
7. re-mi/ta-a-sa/we[-tu]-ti on behalf of Remus, governor of
8. wa-sa-ka/i-si-mi-ri[-ti] this town, to Smyrna:
9. I SA.wa-sa-ka I (and) spun flax.”
10. e-pe[-se]/pi-mi-se/i2 “(On behalf of) the governor himself being given
11. ta-me-ki/pe-se-we1 PA this to the Pisidian trader: cloth”
Tablet RS 20.25 from Ras Shamra/Ugarit
Side A
1. a-ka-mi/pi-ni/ma-li “On behalf of Akamas, representative of Malos
2. a-ti pi-ni/a-pe-sa PI. and representative of Ephesos, he (= Wasas) gives
3. i-si1-pa-li. to Isiba‘al;
4. a-we1-ri/ma-ka-pi-ti 1 (at) the entrepôt of the frontier outpost
5. a-ta-ta-ne/pi-ni/ta-si-ri to Adadanu, representative of tasiri;
6. i-si-pa-ti/pi-ni/u-ri2-ka-si 1 to Sipat, representative of urikasi;
7. pi-ni/u-wa1-ri. to the representative of the frontier outpost.”
8. a wa1-sa PI/pi-ni/ka-pi-li “Wasas, representative of the municipal
9. wa1-ta-ri.i-li-si-ri/wa 1-si-ri-ti 1 cloth industry, gives in veneration to the Syrian god (?);
10. ta-pa-ri/pi-ni/i-li-ta-ma-ne to Tabaris, representative of ilitamane;
11. a-we-si-ri/pi-ni/me-ni-wa-ri to Awesiri, representative of meniwari.”
12.
Side B
la-mi-ya-ne-ti/ka-pa-ri-ti1 “At the Lamiyan trade centre:
13. we-sa -mu PI I, Wesas, give
14. i-li-ma-li-ki/pi-ni/la-mi-ya-ti to Ilimalik, representative of Lamiya;
15. a-ka-mi PI/pi-ni/ma-ki on behalf of Akamas I give to
16. u-we1-ta-sa-li/ Uwatasalis, representative of the customs collector;
a-mu PI ma-sa-we-li I give to Masawalis
17. a-pe-mu -ma/ZITI-si/ma-ki and Apamuwas, officers (?) of the customs collector:
3 PA NE WA1 3 (units of) cloth, NE (and) wine;
18. ya-me-ri/pi-ni/ma-ki to Yameri, representative of the customs collector;
19. sa-si1-ma-li-ki/ME 2 NE/PA to Sasimalik: 2 (units of) ME, NE (and) cloth.”
The fragmentarily preserved tablet 1687 from Enkomi, inscribed
in the so-called Cypro-Minoan II script or Linear
D, appears to contain correspondence dealing with a naval
battle in the waters of southwest Asia Minor, 92 and hence
may plausibly be assigned to the same period as the Uga
ritic correspondence given below. The tablet is found in
92 Best & Woudhuizen 1988: 98-110; Best & Woudhuizen 1989:
64, note 39; Woudhuizen 1992a: 117.
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the foundation course of a hearth outside its proper context
in an Enkomi IIIA (= Late Cypriote IIIA) level, postdating
the period of upheavals of the Sea Peoples. 93
93 Dikaios 1971: 885; Pl. 317.